Comment 2 for bug 659469

I can confirm the 4 seconds delay, but not the shutdown after 20 unsuccessful connections.

Maybe shutting down mpd-sound-menu isn't such a good solution; because a remote mpd server could just be in another network when I'm traveling with my laptop. slowy updating the time between connection attempts up to 30 seconds should be fine. That is, at the beginning, try it every second, after some fails go to 5 seconds, then 15, then 30. keep it at that rate then.

I think that synergy2 [1] does it the same way when the server is not reachable.

[1] http://synergy2.sf.net/